How to Use useless in a Sentence

useless

adjective

• I made a useless attempt at fixing the leak.
• The tent is useless in wet conditions.
• Drugs are useless in treating the condition.
• That means your stash of its 20%-off coupons are about to be useless.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
• Then, the left engine useless, the plane listed to the side.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021
• This doesn’t mean that the pieties are empty or useless.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Choosing the wrong test may be useless, and a waste of time and money.
  — Brandon Peters, Verywell Health, 21 Mar. 2024
• Front offices None of the rest of this matters if the boss is useless.
  — Eric Stephens, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
• My kitchen junk drawer was bulging at the seams with all kinds of useless junk.
  — Washington Post, 7 June 2021
• Also, when—not if—the battery on the phone dies, the compass is useless.
  — Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
• But from the Sharks’ standpoint, dwelling on the past is perhaps useless.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2025
• The main sail was then rendered useless, causing the men to be set adrift in 20-foot-plus seas.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2024
• The table looks small, the chairs childish, the sink below the window looks cheap and useless.
  — Keith Ridgway, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• The best footwear in the world is useless when paired with the little cotton socks that fill most kids’ drawers.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
• But the truth was that already by the birth of their daughter he had been rendered useless.
  — Nicole Krauss, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• The sky was a churning, cold tempest; my glasses useless in the hazy mist.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
• Even the best passers in the league are useless without teammates knocking down shots.
  — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2023
• The police and public might be useless here, but Mia won’t give up.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 July 2024
• But when three of our city's children are gunned down in the street in three weeks, the time for useless half-measures is over.
  — Cam Winton, Star Tribune, 19 May 2021
• The defensive game plans the staff built for Army and Purdue will be useless this week.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2021
• That’s why your Prius is useless when its 12-volt battery dies.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2021
• With his left ankle rendered useless, Jones hopped off the field on his right foot.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022
• Of course, the truth is that rather than being a useless relic, the core work of the humanities is the cure for what ails us.
  — Jim Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
• Without a briefcase though — the one Five and Lila hotwired to get to the Commission is now useless — that's a no-go.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 22 June 2022
• The bulk of Earth’s water, about 97%, is in salty oceans and thus useless for drinking or growing food.
  — Mark Gongloff, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2024
• Tomatoes will grow in plastic, clay, and stone pots, but a pot that lacks drainage holes is useless.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 May 2024
• If a weed killer is like a key and its target like a lock, a change of the locks can render the herbicide useless.
  — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• But most of the government’s DIY advice on how to adapt had so far proven useless.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
• Pipes burst, water mains were rendered useless, and freezing temperatures left residents without water for over a month.
  — Catherine Coleman Flowers, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
• Meme coins became popular in 2013 with the launch of Dogecoin, which its creators intended as a joke, spoofing the many other seemingly useless cryptocurrencies that were popping up at the time.
  — Maximilian Brichta, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 25 Feb 2025